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Population Graoter Kings Mountain 21,914 City Limits (1966 Census) 8,256 City Limits (Estimotc 1968) 9,300 • Grtattr lunga Mouatolv tigur* U dartvts liom lb« •p«ctrl StatM Biueau of tho Codiui raport o iMP«ry IMf. (ud Ittcludos tha 14,990 popuiatioa o Nuabpr 4 TowMhlp. ond tba ramcumng 9,124 Iroa Ifanbay S Towaabip. in Cipvaland County sod Crowdov rf»M»n«hlp lo Caofoa CoMoty Kings Mountain's Reliable Newspapei VOL 82 No. 3 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, January 15, 1970 Eightieth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Taxi Franchises Upped Four To 26 Rites Conducted For S. A. Crouse Funeral Held | ~ For Former i City Clerk vFuncral rito.s for Sylvanus Ar- ’ tliur Croust*. 82. onotimo City t Clerk and an a;ient for a number i of years for Pilot Life Insurance Company, were held Sunday aft ernoon at 4 p.m. from St. Mat thew’s Lutheran church of which he was a member. ; His pastor, Rev. Charles Easley,. officiated at the final ritc's and interment was in Mountain Rest I cemetery. Active pallb(*ar('rs wore James Herndon, George H. Mauru'y, Joe Smith, Jacob Cooper, Carl Finger and Dr. W. L. Mauney. A native of Gaston County, Mr. Crouse was son of the late C. S. Crouse and Frances Carpenter ('rouse. He was Past Master of | Kairview Lodge 339 AF & AM of : Kings Mountain. He had long been active in the Democratic: Party in Kings Mountain and ^ Clev(*land County. Surviving arc his wife, .Mrs. Maude Rudisill Croiuse; twoj daughters, Mrs. Joe C. Hcddcn of 1 Kings Mountain and Mrs. W. D. i kKcrns of Kings Mountain; and, "lour grandchildren. Mr. Crouse died Saturday morn ing at 5:15 in the Kings Mountain hospital after a week’s illness. nou Aoun PHA Re-elects McGill, Tate Joiin L. McGill has been i‘g*| elected chairman and Brooks R.; Tate vice-chairman of Kings! Mountain Public Housing Au-j thoriiy, Inc. j 1'he low-rent housing agemyl was constituted in January 1936' and is currently building 1,50 units on nine sites within tiie city. Mr. McGdl and Mr. Tate were loclccted at a meeting of the diiojlors Tuesday night. Other, memi>ers are William On, Carl Wilson and Martin Harmon. , The directois also named A. Fd.i (^im) Conner as the authority’s maintenance diiector. He Will as-' sume his duties when the initial units completed are occupied. ! Tom Harper, executive direct or of the IciA’-rent housing agen-i cy wdl bo at City Hall from 9 a.m. to noon again Saturday to accept apiplications for low-rent housing. Meantime, he was to for with a regional ropresen-, tfeiiive of the Housing and Urban Development department Thurs day to establish a firm schedule bf lentals and tests of persons .cliidble for the low-rent units. On the recent Saturda>. 21 family applications for the low- ifnt housing units were receiv-1 Bailey Bites ^eld Sunday Funeral rites for Lee Roy Bail ey, 56, of 517 Belvedere Circle, w<‘re held Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. from First Nazarene church, interment following in Mountain R('.st cemetery. R(»v. C. A. Bost officiated at the final rites. Mr. Bailey died Friday morn ing at 3 a.m. in Veteran’s Hospi tal, Otcen, after several month’s iiine.s.n. He was a native of (Teorgia, son of H. G. Bailey and the late Nan cy Oliver Bailey. He was a for mer Mauney Mill employee. Surviving are three sans, Mich ael Bailey, Ricky Bailey and Ron nie Bailey; four daughtc^rs, Ra chel Bailey, Elaine Bailey. Char- ; lone Bailey and Patricia Bailey; [ one brother, C. T. Bailey of King.'^ L Mountain: and throe sisters, Mrs. ijunius Boles of Greenville and ^Mrs. Albert Hicks and Miss Ruth Bailey, both of Kings Mountain. Mr. Bailey ser\-ed In the Paci fic during World War II and was a Purple Heart veteran. WINS MEDAL — Sgt. Keith Gore has recidved the Army Commendation Medal while | serving with the Army in Ko* rec, Keith Gore Commended Sgt. Raymond Keith Gore, son or Mr. an i Mrs. Hai ley Goi’e of Kings Mountain, has been award ed the Army Commendation Medal vvh le serving in Korea. Sgt. Core is m.arried to the for mer Betty Brooks of Kings Moun tain. They are parents of a 12- months-old son, Chris. The award was for meritorious service as administration N C O and office manager at Head- 1 Corps from June 1939 to Feb ruary 1970. The citation read: “During tliis perioi Sgt. Gore distinguished himself by his superior iniative and dedication in the perform ance of his duties. His extensive knowledge of office management and a iministrativc procedures :ontributcd immeasurably to the; smooth and .efficient functioning o. his section. His superior per formance of duty is evidenceci by his iieing selected as both battal ion an 1 Corps S^>Uiier of the Month, Sgt. Gore’s initiative, pro- , tessional competence and devo-| tion to duly earned him the re-. rpect and admiration of sube)r-| dinates, contemporaries and sup eriors alike. Ilis exemplary per- lOimance of duty reflects gwat credit upon himself, 1 Corps Group ant the United States Army”, said Lt. General Patrick F. Cassidy. CAGO To Honor Max Hamrick The Cleveland County Organi zation of Governmental Officials will honor Max Hamrick, recent ly iGtired acting county manag er, [or his 29'^ears of service to the county. He will be honored at the February 11 meeting la be held It Kings .Mountain Country Club. Mr. Mamr ck served as deputy eleik court, county audi- or an.J lax supervisor and fin ally as acting count.v manager .eforc his rcUremont December: 31. .Mayor John Henry Mass, com pleting a second teim a.s CAGO .hailman, said David Gillespie, associate editor of the Charlotte Observer and former editor of die Shelby Daily Star, will bo featured speaker for the meet ing, at which new officers will bo installed. Mayof And Dixon Swap Offices •Ma,. or John Henry Moss and Build ng Inspector Kelly Dixon liavt’ swapped offices ! U'mporarily. j The M«yor had to be ejeclcvl ! in Older that the lenovation of I the City all west wing could I continu(» and moved to tlic 1 ba.s(*rnent. I Tlie swap wo:ks v(My well 1 as Mr. Dixon is super ntimding ; the extt'nsive renovation. I About two weeks more work * remain to complete the job. Board Wants All-Night Co-Op Set-Up Taxi service In the city will be expanded to 2t^ by the addition of four cabs, the city board of oimrnissioners voted Tue.sday night. Approval followed nvummenda- fion by a .special committee head ed by Comm. Jim Dickey and after a petition for tiic expansion was signed by 200 citizen.*? and bu.si- ness firms and pr(*sent(‘d to j re cent meeting of the board. It was at the request of some t.ixi opera tors that tlie taxi study be under taken. Oilier operators took the opposite point of vio»v. No taxi franchisfN h ive been added here since 1919, said Comm. Dickey who notc'd that in 1940 Kings Mountain had an approxi mate population of (),.500 persons. In 1969. King.s Mountain had an approximate' jx»pulation of 9,300 and an estimate from tin* l‘M)6 cen.sus revealed iliai (;i(‘at(?r Kings Mountain had a poiiulalion: i of 22,000. i In recommending the addition, Of fo. r new fianchisrs. Comm.! Dickey said h's committee recom-! : mends also that “the taxi rompa-' nies work out among tliemselves! an arrangemi'iit so that ad('qua(e! 24 hour s('rvic(* will be available;' that the prerent franchises be op erated and exe:utcci ‘n a more burine-sslike way. In that we mean they should hv on the yard and working unle.s.s tlu're is sicknes.s, breakdown or .some other re.spect- able excuse; that no franchise is sued by the city be assigned, .sold or transfent'd unle.s.s approval is granted by the mayor and the city board and without such ap proval any sale, transfer or as- signment shall be null and void without an.v effect.’’ The recommendation pa.ssed unanimously and flu* board <s-, tablished a 30 day p(*riod from January 14 to February 14 to re ceive applications. One taxi (kperator, Bonnh' Bur ton, criticized the move, saying the taxi busine.ss was better 22 years ago than it is today. “Put ting on more cabs will cut our jobs half in two," he said. “Every house in town ha.s oiu‘ and two* cars in their yards,’’ he noted, and added, “We can’t keep a gwifi car in shape if we can’t gel enough business. Ladies don’t like to sit in a ‘trap.’’ Taxi driver Wilbur Hamrick i commented b(‘fore adjournment . that .some consideration he given ' to raising the mayor’s salary “be fore wo lost' a good mnyoi,’’ he said. Hamiick’s remarks were in apparent reference to roport.s that Mayor John Henry Mogs is under! consideration for the post of Gas tonia city manager, tliougli the mayor .says ho liasn’t been offi cially contacted about the job. MO.S.S pointed out to Hamrick that his salary is not set by the board but is established by the slate' legislature. Regular Pattern For Fluoride Vote REAPPOINTED ^ Martin L. j Harmon has been reappointed | to a five year term on the Kings ! Mountain Housing Authority. I Mr. Harmon's three-year term expired this month. ! Herald Editor Is Reappointed Herald E .itor Martin Harmon has l)ecn loappointed to a five- year term on tlie Kings Moun- ta-n Housing AuLhoriiy. Ml. Harmon's appointment was made by the city board of commissionots Tuesday night. M ’. Harmon has served on the housing bodv sinct' its in ception, said the mayor in rec ommending Ilis IX* appointment. Mr. Harmon served as acting secretary of the Public Housing Authority until the appointment of the executive director Thomas W. Harper. Registration Books Won't Ic Opened Ground rule.*-- for the informa tional referendum on the question of fluoridating the city’.< water supply — with the excejjtion there will bo no registration of new voter.s — will compare to , regular city elections. ' Tlie fluoridation vott* will he conducted at the six ward polling places on Saturday, February 7, from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The city ccmmi.ssion adopted- the rulo.s Tue.sday night. I Other items: 1) Assistance may be gi\<'ii t!» I a physically disabled per.son by a ( relative or by another per.son ci(‘s- j ignatod by the voter, i 2) Ab.sent('e voting will not be. ! permitted. j 3) Only tho.sc* ju'r.Mnis whn.se ! names appear in the official ri'g ! •istration books may vote. i Thf ballot will read; 1 ■‘Shall fluoride he added to tlie' water supply of the City of Kings Mountain? “For adding fluoride. “Against adding fluoride,” Kings Mountain voters, also in informational polls. fa\rn('d add ing fluoride in 1947, oj)posed ii in 1949. The Kings Mountain Jayci-es. leading the pro-fluoride niov'e- • ment, a.sked permission of the city to u.se its nddressograpli plate*! in tlie utility departnu*nt for distribution of publicity ma terials. The commission \a)t(‘d to permit use of the platc's both prop(/.onlv^’ and <»pponents. X SNOW SCENE—Last week the mercurv punched the bottom from the thermometer and citizens experienced more pair from the Arctic air than from the area's second snowfall of the year. Mon- doTf was a snow holiday from school and the you ngsters bundled up in warm clothes and enjoyed themselves. lasac Alexander took this photograph on West Gold street. From left to right, Jonet Darling. Sheila Beatty and Cindy Darling. Youth To Become Members 01 All City Commissions College Group, iKMHS Seniors To Be Tapped GOP Precinct Meetings Set Plast and West Kings Moun tain Republicans will hold pre cinct meetings Saturday, January 31st, at 2:30 p.m. at Iho Kings Mountain Armory. Now precinct offict'r.s aia* to bc’ elected and ail GOP’ers are urged to attend. The GOP county convention slated for Saturday, February 14lli, 2:30 p.m. at the ('kweland County ('ourthouse. Shelb.N. Gene Dye Opens Electrical Firm Gene Dye has announced the opening ol his Dye Electric Com- pan> at 802 Henry Street. Mr. Dye has spent more than 17 years in the eleetru'al .Ijade with Hoke Electric Company and Mos.*; Electric Company. The firm will offer residential, commercial and industrial con tracting as well as r'‘pa{i .*!ervice, exclusive of small appliances. Mr. Dyt* is the son ol Mr. .and Mrs. Sam Dye. He is a member of First Baptist ehureh and a Sun day School teacher there. His wife Ls Joyce Dixon Dye. Tliey have two sons. Rex, age 8, and Barney, age 11. Collins Inquest Jury Is Sworn A six-man coroner’s jury was sworn at 5 o'clock Wednesda.. afternoon to conduct an inquest into the Ueath o: James S. Col lins. Serving on the jury arc Rev. D. B. Alderman, George B. Hnj d, Lloyd E. Dav'is. Bill Dover, Hall Goforth and Ambiose Cline. You:ig Collins, 19, died of gun - . shot wounds in the head early the morning of January A. Dale for the inquest will he Kr;da.v, January 23 at 5 p.m. at the county cou:ihouse, C'nunty Coroner J- Ollie Hanis said. DIXON SERVICE Sunday mornln.g worship ser vices will be hel,1 at 9:30 a.m. at Dixon Presbyterian church with Fbev. Roh-ert Wilson delivering the sc:mon. OFFICER — Caraofon Ware of Kings Mountain has been elect* ed first vice-president of the newly • formed North Carolina Horticultural Council, Inc. Pres ident of the association is G. N. Noble of Trenton. Vassar Shear- on of Wake Forest is second vice-president and Hugh Vann of Raleigh is secretary-treasurer. Bridges' Buy Ansell M I Youth of the community of ^ I hi-h school .senior and college I age will be appo.nttd soon to I sej ve on various city commis- ife K'^ions and cemmitteos. the city ^ ‘ ^•omrniss on voted Tuesday niglii. I Mayor John Henry Moss ask- ;; ol fov and obtained c{»mmission, , approval to inv.)lve youth of iho' in a program ho will laln'l; i 7()‘s.'’ 7 no mayor poiniori out th-ai on govornmontal bodies ostaklished l;> statute planning, rrdo\o]- opmont, public housing, zoning and zoning hoaitl of adju.suncnt young peopk? would servo on- ' ly as a non-voting as.-^oei.ato. On I other city rommiiioos and there ja.o Teachers To Work Coming Saturday icings Mountain district s. hool pupils, in spite of Mon- day s h >Iklay due to snow, will still have a one-clay weather “loservc*”. Original plan called I'or Fri day to bo -a pupil holiday for teacher evaluation day — a woi k cay for t he faculty. Friday will not be a pupil holiday and the teacher eval uation day wil] be Safurday, Suge. intendent Don Jones has announced. Bulwinkle Seeks Froneberger Seat _ Lewis Bulwinkle, Gastonia, N. ■a.e over 250 citizens serving by District Judge of the 27th ai;i)Ointmfnt tliey would be District, today filed with The Slate Bfiard of Elections no- O’s" candidacy for the Superior functioning mcmbe:s. foUoAs o^Vnc^ce’s'^r.'''-,' i-.'w’.nt •’'"'-’‘'sl'iP of the 27th Ju- .outli ST'Miinar and' :s 'the piiv- P’stncl, now held by Judge ors plan for inv,>h-ng voulh'in „ the alfahs of the eilv. ‘ f‘«o<-'berger has announc . , . * ‘d iliat he* would not seek reelect- A.] h)ard membc:s oxpres.scJ tion fo the office he has held ince 1955. jst.ong Migport for liie idea. '■ ;'a t'):nm. Jim Dk*!;. !‘‘.Spe.iid.ig -as a patent, I H-el Shop . Judge B. T. Falls, Jr., of Shelby, I this is a su-p in the rig,hi dire.’ ^ the senior resident ; lio; i Cemm. Norman King said he Ansell Beautv f-'hop, owned and Du key s staten.eni in , . ^ I that he was also the operated by Mrs. Anna* M-ae; Superior Court Judge of this dis trict after the retirement of Judge Froneb(>rger. pannil of lohn (Moore) Harris, 68, Killed When Hit By Car; Driver Charged Dorty Rites Held Sunday Funeral rit('s for Lester Lee Dorty, 62, of 205 S. Piedmont Ave nue. were held Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. from Harris Funeral Home Chapel, interment follow ing in Big Springs Baptist eeme- tery at Hollis, N. C. Rev. Mitchell Pruitt and Rev. Frank Shirley officiated at the final rites. Mr. Dorty died Friday night at 9:30 p.m. in the King.« Mountain hospital after sev^eral year’s ill ness. He was a former employee of Boston Yarn Mill, Lincolnton. He was a member of Chestnut Ridge Baptist church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Etiielene Horn Dorty; and one sister, Mrs. W. M. Grigg of Holly wood, Florida. John (Little Jolinny) Moore* ' Harris, 6S, Negio, was killed Monday night at 6:31 p.m. when struck b. a car oa I'. S. 71 200 '.\ards outside the city limits near Ro.’k Motel. Police charged Bonnie* I.cc Stafford, AS, Negro, of .307 Moore street. Gastonia, with leaving tin* I scene (.;■ an accident and muixlcr by automobile. Ho is fi(*c on I $5,000 bond. ' Bennett Masters, assislatu (*01’- I oner, who dndueled an autop sy said Harris died instantly of head and internal injmU's. A j second car, reportedly op(*ralcd ' by r/. har.l \V. Kirby, ran over i Harris’ bod.v arid sto])p(d on top of it, according to investigating •officers, State II gluvay I’atrol* man J. L. Evans and Police t’hi(*f Th'imas McDevill. Officers said no chaiges w<'re filtnl against ,Ki.hy. They said it was n(‘ces- I sary to await a jack Ix'fon* tlu* Kirby v( hick* could lx? lifted and ^ Harris’ body removed. ! Accoi'di’ii; to witnesses at the scene of the acci ent. Harris was crossing U. .S. 71 just weSt of the city vviien he was repo.tedly struck by. tile •Sla.ffoTd 1967 mwl- ol Fold. The Staffoni ear stop- I ped at Iho seene but tlu* driver ‘ allegedly jumped back into his vehicle after looking at Harri.** .nt*ss and fled. J. D. M'alkec of .Shelby and his son, Robert, of Fallston, said tliey wrote down the fkM?ing c.ar’s tag ULimber an.i gave it to State Tr<K)p<*r Evans and Ciiitd M. Devitt. The tag numlier wa.*^ given to police organizations. Gastonia City police' cullerl .McDevill a short lim<* lat(*r and told him they had pickc'<l uj) a suspect. Gaston officers ariesied Stafford at his home on Moore strcH't in Gastonia. They saifl tlu front of his car was badly dam aged. Chief McDevill and Evans went to Gastonia where they oh- tainod prcturcs of the car an.l arrestivi Staffo.d for (jucsiion ing. After interrogation Chief McDevitt, .Slat Old was charged with hit and run and aul<imobile manslaugher. Harris' pocket watch, fouiul a> lh(* scene of the accident, wa.*; stopped at 6:31 p.m. Funoial arrangements for Harris are incomplete and will he announced by Gill & Drown 1 uneral Home. .Mr. Harris, of ](».3 Pansier stiTCt. is survived by a half hroHu'i-, Enoch Moore, of Gaff ney, G. C. i irpnapp,Ju.lge Bulwinkle was elected a Ilowoy and Miss Oiiie IIartsell,| c-mmi Ray C'linc said, I bo- w^^a^o^ntod ChleT d"sS^ for the past 31K- years, lias been|liev> this will he a wonderful by the late Chief Justice R Hunt sold to Mr. and .Mrs. Dohhv R.• ^ri^^*'tun.ty for our yoaih." Parker in January 1969 follow Bridges. * 'V. , ^‘cldix ing the re.signation of Ju^^ j . .tniv of oUi vouth ioda> feel .\llran of Cherryvillo N C Mis. Hovvey reri.cd in 19ol, but; left out. I bc'lieve this will Ik* a The 27th Judicial’ District in- was still a partner in the hus-j^^^B fo.vyard^and tins program eludes Gaston, Cleveland, iwiil involve many young people Lincoln Counties. lw;th .00(1 ideas and gooj lead-! Miss Harisell Iras opened a|erslip,” shop at her liome, 2d2 North^ ('omm. 'I'. J. Ellison and Cktmm Piedmont anvtnue. an ! has re-j Maude Walker were also en taini ■ the name ot tlu* AnselJ; thiisinsiabout the program. Beauty Shop. — TC RECONVENE MEETING With attendance j)oor due to the inck.'moni weather, Lak(* Montonici Club stoc-kholdors vot ed Tue.sday night to re.*onvone the annual meeting on Tuesday night. February 10. No action was taken on election of offi cers and directors. and Mr. and .Mr.s. Bridges wdl liav('l a staff of f)peta:o;s at the 199; West .M. . nt:nn street location.! They will use tlu* nain., ('iihy's! Beauty Salon, vviih Miss Catiiy! Carrol as manag<'r. j tlu' lortnci 1 i •Mr.s. Ik idges Norma Falls. Annual KM Chamber oi Commerce Dinner Monday; Tracy To Perform .\nnual moelin,g of Kings .Moini- Terms of Diiectf>rs C’hark's Mau- tain Chanih(*r of Commer •<’ will ney and Tom Tate are (*xi)iring. b(* held .Monda.v evening at 7 o’ clock at the .\mericaii L; ..i.m. Other officer.s and directors arc- Pn«rum f.Miu.v will !,<• <'nl.T 1- I--- laiiiitiunt bv C.-nu l-ia. x , .•umc- Pl-osulunl; Lc- M.mi.x r.-, .s.voml. fc-'rl Brad-haw of Dallas; dian and proIVssh.aal .udorlainar. * i iRl't SramHiiIdron. Williams, secretarv-tii'asurer: and Dev. E. L. Murphy officiated at J. C. Bridges, Bill* Brown, C’inirles Die final rites. Rites Conducted For Mrs. Wise, 84 Funeral rites for Mrs. Martha •’■'isk Wis(». 84, widow of Henry W. Wise who died in 1961, were held Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock j from El Bethel Methodist church, • interment following in El Bethel ‘ ce meterv*. -Mrs. Wise died Saturdiiy after- — noon at 4 p.m. in the Kings , Mountain hospital after illness of s('veral years. She was a native of Li-;icoln County, daughter of the late Mr. and .Mrs. Dillard Sisk. Surviving are throe sons.-Wood- row Wise, J. C. M’ise and Rock- toi'd Wise, all ol King? Mountain; two daughters, Mrs. Craig Arro- vyood of Kings Mountain and Mrs. and The brief busin(*ss .sessioji, Pres- ulonl Joe i; Smilh nMnou.uod ^ j„. would iriclud.- aiiimul repo,Is of nridufs. and Gene- Timms 4 officers and elc'ction of two di- re(*tors. Memlx'rs and llu*ir wives will b(» gue.<ts of tin* organization and additional tickets ni:iy be obtain ed fur each. u*x officio di;< ctors. as past president b Reservations are n*(iuest(*d by Friday at the office of the orguni-, Mliun. HOSPITALIZED Humes Houston. veteran member of the sales staff at Kings Mountain Drug Company, underwent surgery Monday at Kings Mountain hospital and was •■doing well."